New York’s The One Club for Creativity, which runs the The One Show and ADC annual awards, has announced its new International Board of directors (ie non-US.). Which gives some idea of the world’s top creatives. All will serve a ...
Read More »Ocean names digital Out of Home award winners
Spark44 and MediaCom won the top prizes in Ocean Outdoor’s annual digital creative competition with Out of Home executions created for Land Rover and the charity Rays of Sunshine respectively. The winners were chosen by a panel of 19 expert ...
Read More »Epica calls out agency excuses in the awards game
Closing date for the Epica Awards is drawing near (in what looks likely to be a highly crowded awards season) and Epica is plugging its point of difference, the awards are judged by (supposedly impartial) journalists (not us BTW.) Amsterdam ...
Read More »Ogilvy’s Refugee Nation is big One Show winner, McCann New York is top agency
The New York One Show’s Best of Show award has gone to Cross-Platform winner Refugee Nation for Amnesty International from Ogilvy New York. The campaign celebrates 2016’s first Olympics team for refugees. Event organiser One Club CEO Kevin Swanepoel says: ...
Read More »Gunn Report names 2016’s top ad award winners – adam&eveDDB is top agency
The Gunn Report into ad awards for 2016 names BBDO as the Most Awarded Network, adam&eveDDB the Most Awarded Agency (two of the top four are from New Zealand), Burger King’s ‘McWhopper’ Most Awarded Campaign, USA Most Awarded Country, Samsung ...
Read More »D&AD and Advertising Week team to launch new global ‘awards for good’
Britain’s D&AD is teaming with the Advertising Week organisers to launch what they call a “global award show that recognizes companies and brands that are making the world a better place.” Maybe it should be called the loaves and fishes ...
Read More »£40m Cannes Lions adds ‘digital craft’ as the festival just gets bigger and bigger
The Cannes International Festival of Creativity, which rolls (lurches?) on to La Croisette from June 18-25, has announced the runners and riders for this year in terms of prizes and jury chairs. New on the scene is a Digital Craft ...
Read More »Can DDB’s Kassaei turn back the awards tide?
There’s a fierce rivalry between WPP and Omnicom (as you may have noticed) and the most visible stage for it in recent years has been the battle for creative awards, most notably at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Recently ...
Read More »Who is going to make the big deals and produce the big winners in 2015?
What’s going to happen in adland in 2015? 1/ The first is that time (and tide) wait for no man and, in February WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell will be 70 while arch enemy Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe will ...
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